ABUTMENT
UPSTREAM
VIEW
The Hatanagi-No.
1 dam, 125m high, is the
highest hollow
gravity
dam in Japan. It was
also the
highest
one
in the
world
at the
time of its construction
(1961).
It
was constructed on the River Ohi as the
upper resewoir of the llatanagi
No.
1
power plant
with an installed capacity of 137MW.
The lower dam
(the
Hatanagi No. 2 dam)
is also a hollow
gavity
dam with
a height
of 69m.
This
plant
is a mixed type
pumped
storage station utilizing
both the natural river flow and the
pumped-up
reservoir water.
The upper
reaches of the Ohi River, where the Hatanagi
No. 1 dam is located in the Akaishi formation,
being
held be-
tween the
fossa magna on tlle east and the medium tectonic
line on the nest.
The foundation
rock of the dam site is mainly
composed of slato laminated
with
hard sandstone in some
places.
The unit
block shapes of the
hollow
gravity
dam are
generally
classified
into four
types
(i.
e. T-tlpe, I-type, U-type
and
ll-type) by
their horizontal
cross
section.
As for
the Hatanagi No. 1 dam, the ll-type
section was adopted
for the blocks
in the riverbed
part,
so as
to keep
enough spac€
for
penstocks
and diversion facilities,
and also
to
be stable
against
the extemal force acting in the
direction
parallel
with the dam
axis.
However,
the I-type section
was
adopted for
the other dam blocks located
on
both left and right river banks
in order
to avoid
undesirable structural effect
possibly
induced by
impairing the vertical
qoss-sectional
symmetry of the II-t]?e sec-
tion's
basement, on
account
of being
placed
on the foundation
rock with steep slope.
In
case of both I-type and ll-type section, all
the longitudinal block
joints
on
the downstream surface of
the dam were
tightly
closed in the
same
way a6 those on th€ upstream,
in order to increase the aseismatic stability of each dam block
and
also
to decrease
the thermal
gradient
oc{uring in so-called
diamond hcad
portion, perpendicularly
to the dam-axis,
taking
the large annual
temperature
difference in tlle region
into consideration.
From
economical design
point
of
view, the
power
house building was constructed at the foot of the
dam, using the
space
qeated
between the
downstream surface of the
dam and the spillway
apron, and the reservoir water from the dam
crest is flowing
over the
power
house roof
which forms a
part
of the apron.
Such a way
of desigt
may
be
said most economical
for a
power house being constructed in a narrow valley.
In this
case, the
width
of
the overflow section of the
dam is designed as wide as that of the river, in order
to decrease
the intensity
of
working load on the roof and an adverse
influence
on it due to
possible
hydraulic vibration caused by
over-
flowing water.
As to the
longitudinal cross sectioo
of the
power
house
roof, a
parabolic
surface line was adopted consider-
ing
hydraulic smoothness.
The
roof of the
power
house
is
structually
composed
of steel and
reinforced concrete as composite
girder
with
thick-
ness
of 50cm.
Concerning with
the
cross-sectional shape of the
dam cr€st, a
parablic
surface line with large curvatur€ extensively
over-hanging
upstream
was
also
adopted in order
not to cause excessive
tubulent flow mixed with air along the
spillway
channel and
consequently to
distribute the over-flowing
water load uniformly
on the
power
house roof.
In this case,
however
a discharge coefficient
value for
the dam spillway may
get
rather low.
In general,
the hollow
gravity dam has
an advatrtage
of receiving less amount of uplift
pressure
acting on its bottom
in
comparison
with that of conventional
gravity
dam,
because the
foundation rock in hollow
ponion
is left uncovered
vdth
dam
conqete.
However,
in case of the
Hatanagi No. 1 dam,
all the foundation
rock was covered
with the dam
base
conqete,
in ordet
to
provide
a sufficient shearing resistance
force for
dam stability.
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